Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-04-07


natl. Sandusky and Cleveland road.
Inquiries set on foot by the navy de-
partment a year ago, show tlat the
railroads can transport boats llV rect
81 length. and By TIE way of the Erie
canal torpedo boats 100 feet long cap
be taken from the Atlantic coast TO the
upper lakes.
The first application on inc files OF
the Interstate commerce commission
Is from the associated roads OF Ken
lucky, Tennessee, and Alabama, ask
inc exemption from the shOrt-hanl
clause of the law, because of river
competition.
IL is said that fresh attempt en- the
lite OF the Gar was made on Tuesday
at the Gatshina palace. \ wholesale
merchant at st. Petersburg was SHOT
dead by woman TO whom he refused
To contribute $4,000 roubles to the
Nihilistic fund.
About two hundred commercial tray-
eers met in Chicago Saturday and pro-
tested against the advance in the price
of one thousand mile tickets on the
railroads, and a committee was APP
pointed to get more liberal conStruc-
ton OF the law.
An investigating committee has re-
ported to the board of supervisors OF
| La Sale county, Illinois, that large
deficits exist in the accounts of the
late treasurer. sheriff, county clerk and
probate clerk. The matter is now be-
fore the grand jury.
Roswell S Ripley, graduate of
! West Point, who rose TO the rank Of
major in the war with Mexico, and took
/ 81. ayIa - . no
| break of the rebellion, becoming a
general, died of apoplexy Tuesday at a
! hotel III New York.
Canvassing is about to commence in
Cincinnati for the guarantee fund of
! 81 100000 required to insure the success
of the Ohio centennial, to be held next
year. The exposition is to be located
! in Washington or Eden park, and Will
last one hundred days.
| It is reported that combination OF
wealthy men, including Senator Payne
| of Ohio, Erastus Wiman of New York,
and James McLaren of Ottawa, is be-
! ing formed to control all the valuable
! iron deposits in Canada. now said tC
! be the richest in the world.
Rumor has it that the divorce case OF
Vice President Hopkins Of the Mis-
/
conditions are that the charge of inf
! deity is to be withdrawn against him
| he is to give his wife 100000, and tile
! decree is to be taken for desertion.
Dora Il. Bennett, when found by &
policeman in a grocery store at Cleye-
land, claimed to have been abducted
| by three men from the house of hel
father at Columbus, Ohio, and driven
away in a buggy. Her shoes were
gone and her HAIR had been cut off.
Samuel Topper, who killed himself a
! Camden, Alabama, was q cousin o
Turner, the English landscape painter
from whose estate he received 800,
300 DR.. a. &. ELY committed suicide
ut Girard, Pennsylvania, for fear tha
his fortune of $50 900 would Sill
away.
Barry Allen was sentenced at Me
nominee, Wisconsin, on Friday to fOu
wears in prison for rObbing Carson s
Rand's safe, at Eau Gale, that state
last summer. of $3.50. On his lnforma
ton Charles Hunter has been arreste,
at Woodman, and Thomas GAMES q
Eau Claire, for completely in thC
crime.
The ocean yacht race was won b,
the Coronet, which arrived of Queens
town about noon Sunday. The dis
lance is 2940 miles Her apparen
time was just inside fifteen days. lie
shortest day S run was 3S.S miles; I've
longest 29l5 miles. Inc weather WA
| uncommonly stormy. She carried .
persons.
4 court in New York has been aske,
to enter anolle prosequi on an indict
ment for forgery found in 1891 agalus
a man named kissane, now said TO b
a leading citizen of San Francisco
bearing an assumed name. From tn
latter city comes protest Of Genera
Francis Dorr, charging that Kissane
murderer
Fou Sing and Peck Sig, implicated j.
the murder at st Louis of Lou John
son, Chinese detective, for whic
crime two Cinnamon have been cor
victed were released at st. Louis o
Friday ON their own recogniZance. Tn
only witness against them Quon
Leng, who turned states evidence
now lunatic.
Delegations from eight towns alOn
the Illinois river and the canal met o
Tuesday at Ottawa and passed reSoll
lions urging the legislature to defe
action on the Chicago drainage bill
until the next session. n committe
of seven was appointed to draft amenC
ments to secure purity of water and
commercial highway.
The governor of Virginia has bee
advised by cable that the London bold
ers of state bonds are to appoint con
missioners TO proceed TO Virginia an
arrange with representatives OF tn
state for settlement of the debt. |
consequence, a joint resolution for tn
creation OF a commission has been IN
troduced in the senate at Richmond.
Railway postal clerks on the Unio
Pacific begin their runs each alternat
week at Council Bluffs, but their home
are scattered from Omaha to Ogder
They have received semi-ofticial not
iication that they will hereafter be re
quired to pay fare when not actual
performing duty. They have decide
to appeal to the post-odice depart
ment.
John Alexander, aged 10 years, G
Pulaski, Pa, has been given a verde
for $4,000 against the Pennsylymi
Railroad Company for personal IN
iuries. Several years ago, while EN-
ployed as water boy on the Erie
pittsburg Railroad, Alexander was OF
! deraI NV the conductor to helm uuiOa